Nevada’s legal tests to determine if drivers are impaired by marijuana have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation’s largest automobile club that says those laws should be scrapped.
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The Bureau of Land Management has pulled the plug on a public-private partnership in Northern Nevada aimed at shrinking the size of a wild horse herd southeast of Carson City through the use of contraceptives.
Gov. Brian Sandoval says he won’t be in Cleveland to support his political party’s national convention this summer.
A group of investigative journalists on Monday published the names of thousands of offshore companies at the heart of a massive trove of data on the finances of the rich and powerful that has become known as the Panama Papers.
The Reno doctor at the center of a federal investigation into an illegal prescription drug ring is being sued by the parents of a 33-year-old overdose victim.
The first step toward construction of a three-mile shared-use bike path along the east shore of Lake Tahoe was approved Monday by the board of directors of the state Transportation Department.
Longtime newspaper editor and columnist Anne Pershing, known for championing social causes in the Northern Nevada communities she covered, has died at age 71.
The legal battle over Nevada’s school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state’s highest court in a case being watched around the country.
Nevada Republicans gather in Reno next weekend for a two-day state convention where they will elect delegates to attend the national convention in Cleveland this summer, vote on the party platform and endorse primary candidates.
Reno firefighters have resumed the search for a man in the Truckee River.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit at 1:53 a.m. Sunday about 14 miles northeast of Gerlach.
Nevada state wildlife veterinarian Peregrine Wolff worked at zoos in the Midwest, with farm animals in Florida and exotic species on movie sets in Hollywood. She never dreamed she’d have to help pull the trigger on a contentious strategy to slaughter a diseased herd of bighorn sheep.
The three Democratic candidates seeking a primary win in June to take on Rep. Mark Amodei in the 2nd Congressional District in November agree on one point: The GOP incumbent from Carson City is out of touch with many of his constituents.
Repair work will begin Monday on a highway into southern Death Valley that was washed out by flooding in October.
Community members gathered Saturday morning at the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery for the 24th Annual Unserviceable Flag Retirement Ceremony.